Early Weimar

Question 1

When did the Kaiser abdicate?

Answer 1

9th November 1918

Question 2

When was the armistice signed?

Answer 2

11th November 1918

Question 3

Why did the kaiser abdicate?

Answer 3

Groener told him the army would no longer fight for him

Question 4

Who was the new leader of the government?

Answer 4

Ebert

Question 5

when and where was the first mutiny

Answer 5

3rd November 1918, Keil Naval base

Question 6

What party was Ebert from

Answer 6

SPD

Question 7

what government did Ebert want

Answer 7

democratic

Question 8

Who was the army leader in 1918

Answer 8

Groener

Question 9

What was the Ebert-Groener pact

Answer 9

on 10th November 1918, agreed for army to support the government

Question 10

When was the Spartacist uprising in Germany

Answer 10

5th January 1919

Question 11

Who was the Spartacist League led by

Answer 11

Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht

Question 12

USPD

Answer 12

1918
radical, anti-war, breakaway from SPD
left wing
led by Hugo Hasse

Question 13

SPD

Answer 13

1875
socialist party
left wing
led by Ebert and Scheildemann
appealed to the working class
democratic freedoms/ welfare rights

Question 14

terms of the Treaty of Versailles…

Answer 14

• germany lost 13% of land (to France Belgium, Denmark, Poland) (land such as Saar, Prussia, Upper Silesia, Freeport Danzig
• overseas policies confiscated
• army–100,000 men
• 6 battleships
• 0 tanks planes submarines
• £6.6 billion in reparations
  -Rhineland demilitarised
• had to accept war guilt
• Germany couldn’t join League of Nations

Question 15

what happened to prices between 1919-20

Answer 15

they quadrupled

Question 16

when was hyperinflation

Answer 16

October 1923

Question 17

What industrial area did France and Belgium occupy

Answer 17

Ruhr

Question 18

what is passive resistance

Answer 18

when workers can strike, but still be paid

Question 19

social welfare in 1919

Answer 19

• working day limited to max 8 hours
• health insurance extended to wives, daughters, disabled
• aid for injured war veterans became responsibility of the govt

Question 20

winners of hyperinflation

Answer 20

• black marketeers
• those with debts, mortgages, loans
• businesses who borrowed then paid back when money had devalued further
• renters
• farmers

Question 21

losers of hyperinflation

Answer 21

• pensioners
• war widows
• landlords
• small business owners
• sick

Question 22

When was the Ruhr invasion

Answer 22

January 1923

Question 23

why did the French invade the Ruhr

Answer 23

Germany fell back in reparations payments

Question 24

What was the Cuno government response to the invasion of the Ruhr

Answer 24

• policy of passive resistance
  -stopped all reparations payments
• Friekorps units secretly organised acts of sabotage (blowing up railways etc)

Question 25

How many Germans shot within 8 months of the occupation of the Ruhr

Answer 25

132

Question 26

When was the Spartacist uprising over

Answer 26

5th-13th January

Question 27

when was the Kapp Putsch

Answer 27

March 1920

Question 28

Who was the Kapp putsch led by

Answer 28

Wolfgang Kapp

Question 29

Law for the protection of the republic

Answer 29

July 1922 imposed serious penalties on conspirators and banned political extremist organisations

Question 30

when was the Munich Putsch

Answer 30

November 1923

Question 31

What was the Munich Putsch

Answer 31

attempt from NSDAP led by Hitler to seize power by a March on Berlin

Question 32

What happened to Hitler as a result of the Munich Putsch

Answer 32

imprisoned for 9 months for treason